Mother suspected of murder after daughter’s body found in freezer in Japan
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TOKYO – A mother was taken to the prosecutors on Nov 14 on a murder charge after her five-year-old daughter’s body was found in a freezer at their home in central Japan, the police said.
The police suspect that the mother, Yoko Kawaguchi, 37, had strangled her daughter Shoko and stored her body in the freezer.
An autopsy revealed arm and hand impressions on the girl’s neck, indicating that she had been strangled and died of suffocation, investigative sources said. The girl had no other major injuries.
When Kawaguchi ran her car off a road on Sept 16, she told police officers that her daughter was missing. The officers who visited her home found Shoko’s body in the freezer, where it is believed to have been kept for several days, the police said.
At the time of the incident, the mother and daughter were living by themselves, the sources said. KYODO NEWS
